Two retired stars of the amateur and professional sumo game with a future yokozuna?

Welcome to Sumo Fan Magazine.

As Editor-in-Chief of SFM, while it gives me great pleasure to welcome
you, the reader, I wish to first start by thanking all the contributors
and staff writers who made this online magazine possible. I have no
idea how many hours of lost sleep were needed to produce all that you
see before you today but want them to know just how appreciated it is
and hope they are as proud as I with the site we have put together –
together.

To the reader, I am sure you can imagine just how happy we are to be bringing
SFM onto your computer screen wherever you may be but, as is the case
with magazines the world over; nothing would be possible without an
audience to read that which we put out. To that end, I hope your own
role will not end merely with the click of a mouse, having read the
pieces that whetted your appetite. As much as it is our job to try to
make SFM the kind of place you will visit often to learn about sumo or
to view the sport from the angles we take on issues pertaining to a
given basho, rikishi, yusho race, and more, I also hope it will serve
as an avenue for your own contributions to the broader sumo-following
world.

Let me therefore, of behalf of SFM
ask you to interact as much as you see fit with the magazine so that at
least some of what you see and read represents your own direct input.
In the coming months and issues we will brainstorm projects based on
ideas sent in by yourselves and will throw these ideas against the wall
of creativity to see if they stick or slide. In the long run, only you
will be our judges.

Finally, I think no
English language magazine focusing on the sport of sumo would today be
in existence were it not for the three decades of interest in the sport
generated by Sumo World. With the apparent sad demise of SW (although it
is still occasionally sold in the Kokugikan) in recent
years and the subscription problems some of you may have experienced I
believe it is left to Sumo Fan Magazine, in no way, shape or form
connected to SW, its staff or contributors, to fill shoes left vacant,
to pick up the banner, and carry English language sumo magazines into
the 21st century. A difficult task indeed but one that will be made all
the easier with your patronage and support.